When you have the right audience, a demonstrative speech on how to lace a corset can be a real crowd pleaser. The key to making this task come off well as a subject for a speech is recruiting an associate who agrees to wear the corset so you can demonstrate proper lacing techniques. Reveal to your audience how corset lacing involves crisscrossing, slipping the lacing through the eyelets, tightening, looping and tying off at the bottom.
The smell of cooked turkey wafting over an audience can quickly get their attention. Keep their attention situated on you by showing the proper way to carve that popular holiday fowl. Begin by cutting off the wings. The next step should be removing the legs and severing the drumsticks. Be sure to show the importance of carving the breast parallel to the bone.
Not all demonstrative speeches need to have live visual aids. If you are an accomplished rock climber, your visual aid could come in the form of a video. Shoot the video to show the proper methods for doing such things as bending your legs beneath you, locating and using handholds, chalking up your palms, attaching ropes to anchors and grasping the rope when you rappel down the face of a rock.
Start off your demonstrative speech by announcing that you are going to tear a large phone book in half using just your hands. Many in the audience will be amazed at this apparent superhuman feat but your job is to use your speech to dispel this notion. Use a second large phone book to reveal the secret: pressing the end of the book against your body, pinching the middle of the book and folding it in half, pulling the book apart at the edges while you keep it pinched and tearing the massive block of pages easily right down the middle.
Slides, computer presentations or photos can be used as visual aids to demonstrate how to avoid a fashion faux pas. If you have a few friends who can be pressed into service, you can also demonstrate this topic with live models. What constitutes a fashion faux pas may vary from one individual to another, so try to be creative and get past such obvious fashion problems as mixing vertical and horizontal stripes or mixing black and navy blue.